Chelsea Preble

Dr. Chelsea Preble is an Assistant Research Engineer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley and Affiliate in the Energy Technologies Area at Berkeley Lab. She earned her PhD in Environmental Engineering from UC Berkeley in 2017. Her research focuses on characterizing air pollution emission sources, controls, and impacts by employing novel sensing approaches and technologies. This work includes developing community-based air quality sensor networks to characterize spatiotemporal air pollution trends, measuring in-use emissions from heavy-duty diesel trucks, and evaluating the real-world emissions impacts of new regulations and alternative energy technologies. Over her 15 year career, Dr. Preble has conducted research that centers around meaningful partnerships with key stakeholders and the communities that can most benefit from environmental engineering solutions and can help identify ways in which air pollution controls and policies can be improved.